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It also is the 36,500th diamond registered since Crater of Diamonds became a state park in 1972. The diamond is “about the size of a pencil eraser” and is “light brown color resembling iced ...
There, he was told he had found a 7.46-carat brown diamond. The 7.46 carat diamond discovered by Julien Navas, of Paris, France, upon his visit to the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas on ...
It was found in 1924 in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, at the Prairie Creek pipe mine, which later became known as the Crater of Diamonds State Park. The diamond was named "Uncle Sam" after the nickname of its finder, Wesley Oley Basham, a worker at the Arkansas Diamond Corporation. [1] [2] [3] The rough diamond as originally discovered weighed 40.23 ...
Over 75,000 diamonds have been found at the site since a farmer first identified diamonds on the land. The 37-acre field where visitors can search for treasures is the eroded surface of a volcanic ...
Crater of Diamonds State Park is situated over an eroded lamproite volcanic pipe. The park is open to the public and, for a small fee, rockhounds and visitors can dig for diamonds and other gemstones. Park visitors find more than 600 diamonds each year of all colors and grades. [5] [6] As of 2015 over 75,000 diamonds had been found in the ...
The Amarillo Starlight is the largest diamond found by a park visitor in the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas since 1972, when it was established as a state park. The Amarillo Starlight was found by W. W. Johnson of Amarillo, Texas in 1975 while he was vacationing at the park with his family. When unearthed, it was a 16.37 carats (3. ...
August 9, 2024 at 3:05 PM. An Arizona father and son discovered a 2ct diamond at the Arkansas Crater of Diamonds State Park while on a summer road trip. Will and Marshall Barnett made the ...
The Strawn-Wagner Diamond is one of a relatively few colorless, internally flawless diamonds ever found, [1] weighing 3.03 carat (620 mg). [2] It was found in 1990 by Shirley Strawn of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, in the Crater of Diamonds State Park public search field. It was cut to 1.09 carats (220 mg) in 1997, and graded a "perfect" 0/0/0 by the ...